But Lord Kirkwood, who proposed the motion, said it was simply a "tidying up exercise".
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Instead of trying, he is tidying the balance sheets of his American holdings for a likely U.S. offering.
But her refusal to say whether she felt the system needed completely rethinking or just "tidying up" appeared to irritate the committee.
He said the supply resolutions were normally a technical tidying up exercise, but that the debate had been turned into "a bit of a mess".
Clearly, a 90 cent minimum wage would make no darn difference to anyone. 6 year olds get more than that these days for tidying their rooms.
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The concession was presented as an exercise in diplomatic house-tidying.
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Ratan Tata spent his first ten years at the helm of the family company tidying up its rambling and often decrepit Indian businesses before turning his attention to foreign markets in the late 1990s.
For Hungary's ruling Socialists, the long job of tidying up after the status law has been all the more irksome, since they were not even the ones who invented it, though they did support it in parliament.
By and large, businesses welcomed this tidying up, even though they will pay more tax during a four-year transition to a new system of payment, under which big firms will pay tax quarterly on a current-year basis, rather than in arrears as now.
In a zero hours scenario, if cardiology is having a quiet day, the cardiologist might be asked to spend the day at home, unpaid, watching television or doing the gardening, rather than being paid by his or her NHS Trust for tidying the desk.
In the Lords peers continue to wade through the detail of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill - at the moment the committee stage seems to consist mostly of tidying up the ramifications of their removal of the central proposal in the Bill, the elected Police Commissioners.
It was clear from the contributions on Monday night that a lot of senior backbenchers simply didn't believe the protestations of the deputy leader of the House, David Heath, that the government had put forward the changes as a mere tidying-up exercise, and they were alarmed to note that ministers and parliamentary private secretaries were being whipped to support the changes.
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